Quotes By Francis Bacon
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis Bacon
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis Bacon
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon